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The Harburg S-Bahn line is a railway line in southern Hamburg, Germany.It starts at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and runs via Harburg to Stade.It mostly runs parallel with the line to Hanover and the Lower Elbe line and is now part of the Hamburg S-Bahn lines S3 and S31.
Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was a German-born American banker, businessman, and philanthropist.He helped finance the expansion of American railroads and the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
Mixing trains of vastly different speeds and/or stopping patterns on the same tracks drastically reduces capacity, [107] [108] [109] so usually a temporal separation (e.g. freight trains use the high-speed line only at night when no or only a few passenger trains operate) [110] is employed or the slower train has to wait at a station or passing ...
Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936).
However, the PRR would still own the land below the post office leading some Congress members to oppose the post office plan, as they believed that the government would only own "a chunk of space in the air" above the tracks. [78] The Postmaster of New York City, William Russell Willcox, ultimately approved the post office anyway. [79]
This is a list of megaprojects, which may be defined in the following categories: . Projects that cost more than US$1 billion and attract a large amount of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, the natural and built environment, and budgets.
ThyssenKrupp is the result of a merger of two German steel companies, Thyssen AG founded in 1891 under the name Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser and Krupp founded in 1811. As early as the 1980s, the companies began negotiations on a merger and began closely cooperating in some business areas.
The German High Command pushed the blame for the surrender away from the Army and onto others, including the socialists who were supporting and running the government in Berlin. [25] In the eyes of the German Right, the blame was carried over to the Weimar Republic when it was established in 1919. This resulted in a considerable amount of ...